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Vigil for slain Central grad: A community seeking solace, answers and an end to violence

It was a gathering no one would have imagined a week ago. But the murder of Thamba Mbungu, 20, last weekend drew well over 100 people to the very place where the unthinkable happened. They came to Derryfield Park to remember. They came to connect. They came to mourn, to cry, to call for an end to gun violence, to question the kind of world that would allow a young man from a loving family and tight-knit community to die alone with a bullet in his back. READ MORE